Exercises to Reduce Tummy Fat
Especially after the holiday season, we could all benefit from shedding a few pounds. Whether your new year's resolution involves weight-loss or not, it's still an excellent time to start working towards your goals. If you're like most other people, your stomach is a problem area. Countless people have too much stomach fat, and even though not everyone who does is considered overweight, we can all agree that it would be nice to lose a few pounds. The best way to lose weight is to combine diet with an exercise program that takes advantage of lots of tummy reducing exercises. This article will explain some of the best tummy reducing exercises to use if your ultimate goal is a trim stomach.
Crunches
Crunches are a classic abdominal exercise, and can be very helpful to your overall workout routine. It's important to change up your exercise pattern regularly, so don't just do a bunch of crunches and expect good results. There are even some things you can change while doing crunches. For instance, after doing a set of normal crunches, you can bust out your exercise ball and do crunches atop that. This exercise is better for your back, and provides more leverage for your abs, which means they will hurt less but still get roughly the same workout. You can also do crunch twists, which are one of my favorite kinds of tummy reducing exercises. Crunch twists are only different in that when you come up towards your knees, you lean over to the left or the right to complete the exercise.
Plank
The plank is one of the more painful but extremely effective tummy reducing exercises. To do it, simply lay on your stomach and stretch out. Next, go up on your toes and elbows, and get to a position that's relatively comfortable. Make sure your back is as straight as possible, and nothing but your arms and toes are touching the ground. Hold that position for as long as you can. You will begin to feel a burn almost immediately, both in your abs and arms. Some people even feel a strain in their backs and legs, which makes the plank almost a full-body workout. Ideally you should be doing the plank for 30-60 seconds at a time, if not more.
Pulse-Up
The pulse-up is a tummy reducing exercise you've probably never heard of. But that doesn't mean it's not a good exercise! To do a pulse-up, lay flat on your back like you're going to do crunches. Next, raise your legs STRAIGHT up into the air, as high as you can. Put your arms out straight along the ground to provide support. Next, raise your legs up further, using the muscles in your hips and your abs. Try to keep most of your back on the ground while doing this. Continue doing this until you feel you cannot do another rep, and then take a break. This is one of the tummy reducing exercises that can be rather rough on your back, so be careful when doing it and always watch your form.
Circuit routines can be done at home or in a gym.
Phil Davies, a certified strength and conditioning expert, who maintains the newsletter Sports Fitness Advisor, is of the opinion that circuit routines may offer the most resourceful and demanding choices when it comes to building up synchronization, strength, stamina and flexibility.
Long adherence to circuit routines will cause your metabolism to increase, assisting in additional calorie burn and consequent weight loss.
Whole Body Routines
If you are looking to achieve a slimmer and shapelier figure in its entirety, you should go for a total body circuit routine so as to trigger several muscle groups simultaneously. Otherwise, you will only see rippling abs or toned legs at a time.
The first part of the circuit routines starts with the Overhead squat. This is done with your feet spread wide up to shoulder level with each hand holding tightly to the ends of a rolled towel and then going into a squatting position without allowing your knees to stretch beyond your toes. With your hands in the same position, repeat 15-20 times. These exercises benefit the thighs, stomach and arms.
Tummy Exercises-Be Careful Of Your Neck
Note: Take care of neck while doing these routines
Secondly, you have various abdominal exercises, and selecting an appropriate one is a very daunting task. However a good thumb rule would be to adopt one that exercises the central part of your body. The knee lift is appreciated as a useful and result oriented exercise. Here, you hold a stability ball under your knees and utilize your stomach muscles to lift it up by means of your knees until your hips leave the floor. Then retract to the old position and repeat the set, 10 times.
Exercise For Your Legs
Wall squats will shape your legs and keep your adrenalin pumping. Here again, use a stability ball between the back and the wall and ensure that your total weight is not resting on it. Leaning on the ball and with hands on hips, bend your knees to a 90 degree position and then slowly revert back to position, by rolling the ball with your back. Do these sets of up and down 10-15 times for good results.
Some reasons that make circuit training a fantastic experience
Several factors seem to combine to make circuit training workouts a fantastic experience. Here are some of them:
- The utility of circuit training in programs related to injury rehabilitation, especially in treatment of sportspersons and for weight loss is considered indispensible.
- It is more efficient than the other exercises because the timed exercises executed with precise time gaps between, add great value to the results.
- The constant shifting nature of these exercises brings more pressure to bear on the body, resulting in increased metabolism and weight loss.
- In general there seems to be agreement that these exercises constitute one of the best ways to achieve total body conditioning
